Category: History: Military: U.S. Civil War

Copyright/published Year: 2007 by Three Rivers Press

ISBN: 9780307236562

Binding: Paperback

As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union ì juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate ì counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a ì standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship ì whose mission was to prowl the world's oceans and sink the U.S. ì merchant fleet. The raider's name was Shenandoah, and her ì executive officer was Conway Whittle, a twenty-four-year-old ì warrior who might have stepped from the pages of Arthurian ì legend. Whittle would share command with a dark and brooding ì veteran of the seas, Capt. James Waddell, and together with a ì crew of strays, misfits, and strangers, they would spend nearly a ì year sailing two-thirds of the way around the globe, destroying ì dozens of Union ships and taking more than a thousand prisoners, ì all while continually dodging the enemy.

Then, in August of 1865, a British ship revealed the shocking ì truth to the men of Shenandoah: The war had been over for months, ì and they were now being hunted as pirates.

What ensued was an incredible 15,000-mile journey to the one ì place the crew hoped to find sanctuary, only to discover that ì their fate would depend on how they answered a single question. ì Wondrously evocative and filled with drama and poignancy, Last ì Flag Down is a riveting story of courage, nobility, and rare ì comradeship forged in the quest to achieve the impossible.

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